Pith Number

pith:44F6GHOA

pith:2018:44F6GHOAFFCLRBXWYKXXZ56ATN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are fast radio bursts generated by cosmic string cusps?

Amanda Weltman, Jake E. B. Gordin, Renato Costa

arxiv:1807.01976 v1 · 2018-07-05 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{44F6GHOAFFCLRBXWYKXXZ56ATN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:11:24.580958Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e70be31dc02944b886f6c2af7cf7c09b546c5bb9e4782ee27b875d0b96a8a3cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01976 · arxiv_version: 1807.01976v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01976 · pith_short_12: 44F6GHOAFFCL · pith_short_16: 44F6GHOAFFCLRBXW · pith_short_8: 44F6GHOA

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/44F6GHOAFFCLRBXWYKXXZ56ATN \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e70be31dc02944b886f6c2af7cf7c09b546c5bb9e4782ee27b875d0b96a8a3cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff46991c592fde71fa3457a42d8aacca72d47a877a7295c3c0e500f095d305d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-05T12:57:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b2a2c6d677306c650cab173096b64b7805f798896a87c92963090bba4948d0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}